What is the best slasher movie of all time?

Bernard Rose's atmospheric supernatural slasher set in Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project — summoning the hook-handed Candyman by mirror — fusing urban legend with social commentary.

David Gordon Green's direct sequel to Carpenter's original — erasing all other sequels — Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie Strode now a fortified survivalist facing one last confrontation with Myers.

Robert Hiltzik's low-budget summer-camp slasher cult classic, remembered for its eccentric characters, brutal kills, and one of the most shocking twist endings in horror history.

Sean S. Cunningham's iconic summer-camp slasher that launched Jason Voorhees and a decade of imitators, beloved for its gory Tom Savini effects and a killer twist ending.

Bob Clark's Canadian proto-slasher predating Halloween — a sorority house stalked by an obscene phone-calling killer — the template the subgenre would be built on.

Tobe Hooper's gritty, almost unbearable 1974 masterpiece of rural terror, introducing Leatherface and producing a film whose raw power still disturbs decades later.

Dario Argento's hallucinatory Italian giallo-slasher set in a German dance academy, its supersaturated Technicolor palette and Goblin score making it the most visually radical horror film of its era.

Michael Powell's controversial 1960 British study of a serial killer who films his victims' dying moments, effectively ended Powell's career but is now recognized as one of the greatest horror films ever made.

Wes Craven's inventive slasher set in the dream world, introducing Freddy Krueger's razor-gloved horror and one of the genre's most terrifying concepts: you can die in your sleep.

Jim Gillespie's teen slasher with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar pursued by a hook-wielding fisherman, a defining late-90s slasher and a post-Scream blockbuster.

Jamie Blanks's campus slasher built around murders staged as famous urban legends, a sleek post-Scream entry with a strong cast and a neat final-act inversion.